Aish Raj Dahal
Engineer, PagerDuty

Aish Raj Dahal is a San Francisco-based engineer at PagerDuty, where he is building PagerDuty’s event intelligence platform—and often deals with fallacies of distributed computing. His recent focus has been on Elixir/OTP and building event-driven microservices using Kafka and Elixir. Previously, he was an early employee at HackerRank and a programmer at Goldman Sachs.

Finding the right balance between writing custom in-house software and using an off-the-shelf solution is difficult. Aish Raj Dahal sheds light on the age old build versus buy problem and "not invented here syndrome" by explaining how PagerDuty built a distributed task scheduler and later moved off it to use an off-the-shelf open source solution.
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